tykurtz

GROKKING NOTES

I liked the way Grokking the coding interview organized problems into learnable patterns. However, the course is expensive and the majority of the time the problems are copy-pasted from leetcode. As the explanations on leetcode are usually just as good, the course really boils down to being a glorified curated list of leetcode problems.

So below I made a list of leetcode problems that are as close to grokking problems as possible.

Pattern: Sliding Window

• https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-subarray/ # Close enough
• https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-size-subarray-sum/

johnou

public class SlidingTimeThreshold {
    
    private final long[] samples;
    private final long windowMillis;
    private int index;
    
    public SlidingTimeThreshold(final long window, final TimeUnit timeUnit, final int threshold) {
        this.windowMillis = timeUnit.toMillis(window);
        this.samples = new long[threshold];
    }

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

danielrw7

#!/bin/sh

command="${*}"
printf "Initialized REPL for `%s`\n" "$command"
printf "%s> " "$command"
read -r input
while [ "$input" != "" ];
do
    eval "$command $input"
    printf "%s> " "$command"

cp16net

{
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
    "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
    "ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
    "rulers": [80],
    "save_on_focus_lost": true
}

brandt

# Optimal bloom filter size and number of hashes

# Tips:
# 1. One byte per item in the input set gives about a 2% false positive rate.
# 2. The optimal number of hash functions is ~0.7x the number of bits per item.
# 3. The number of hashes dominates performance.

# Expected number of items in the collection
# n = (m * ln(2))/k;
n = 300_000

domenic

Auto-deploying built products to gh-pages with GitHub Actions

This is a set up for projects which want to check in only their source files, but have their gh-pages branch automatically updated with some compiled output every time they push.

A file below this one contains the steps for doing this with Travis CI. However, these days I recommend GitHub Actions, for the following reasons:

• It is much easier and requires less steps, because you are already authenticated with GitHub, so you don't need to share secret keys across services like you do when coordinate Travis CI and GitHub.
• It is free, with no quotas.
• Anecdotally, builds are much faster with GitHub Actions than with Travis CI, especially in terms of time spent waiting for a builder.

daschl

Writing Resilient Reactive Applications

This guide is a first draft (that will end up in the official docs) on writing resilient code for production with the Couchbase Java SDK. At the end, the reader will be able to write code that withstands bugs, latency issues or anything else that can make their application fail.

Note that lots of concepts can be applied for both synchronous and asynchronous access. When necessary, both patterns are discussed separately. Also, the focus is on database interaction, but if you are using RxJava as part of your stack you can apply most of the principles there as well (and should!).

RxJava 101 Recap: Cold and Hot Observables

When working with Observables, it is important to understand the difference between cold and hot. Cold Observables will start to emit events once a Observer subscribes, and will do it "fresh" for each Observer. Hot Observables instead are starting to emit data as soon as it becomes available, and will return the same (or parts of the same)

aphyr

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'open3'

# What's the network interface name?
def ifaces
 `iw dev`.lines.select { |l| l["Interface "] }.map { |l| l.split(/\s+/).last }
end

# First iface

aslakknutsen

JDK 8 Released

Most of us won’t be able to use/deploy JDK 8 in production for a looong time. But that shouldn’t stop us from using it, right?

It should be possible to sneak in JDK 8 in the back way, the same way we snuck in Groovy and other libraries we wanted to use.

The Test Suite to the rescue

The Maven compiler plugin run in two separate lifecycles, compile and testCompile. Those can be configured separately.